Richard (Tai) Grove is the president of the CCLA – Canada Cuba Literary Alliance. He has made trips to Cuba for many years and has organized literary trips that included readings at the “International Book Fair” in Havana. He has been interviewed on Cuba radio and tv. To find out more: http://www.CanadaCubaLiteraryAlliance.org.

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Visceral and muscular prose

Adam Davidson-Harden

Bottle and Glass is a tantalizing work of fiction anchored in careful historical research. In visceral and muscular prose, Morgan Wade paints a sea-salted and gripping portrait of early nineteenth century English empire on Turtle Island. In his second novel, the master storyteller compels our attention using thoroughly grounded and unromantic brushstrokes that depict early colonial life, with all of its messy and at-times violent implications.

I remember my first encounters with history. Grade Five it would have been and we called it Social Studies. Miss Kolton taught the class. I recall names, places, facts: Alexander the Great, Marco Polo, the Ghengis Khan; Persia, Venice, Mongolia. To tenderize their meat, the armies of the Great Khan ...

Through writings on our nationally and personally shared experiences, Way crafts a new and unique genre of sonnet truly Canadian in form and subject matter. Redirection remolds and reconsiders life’s shared small moments and our national history, in unexpected instants of laughter, grand epiphanies of the divine in everyday ...

Bottle and Glass is a tantalizing work of fiction anchored in careful historical research. In visceral and muscular prose, Morgan Wade paints a sea-salted and gripping portrait of early nineteenth century English empire on Turtle Island. In his second novel, the master storyteller compels our attention using thoroughly grounded and ...

Adam Davidson-Harden - Educator, musician and poet/essayist from Kingston, Ontario, with a taste for complex ales and compelling art.

Susan Ioannou’s Looking for Light is a book of many strengths. Its structure carries us surely and gracefully ever inwards through its first two sections, dealing with travel experiences and then with some of the profound existential questions raised by the world that we’ve explored—only to focus its third ...

Bottle and Glass is a highly original adventure story, set during the war of 1812, and framed using real taverns that once existed within the city of Kingston, Ontario. A fascinating study of escape, and a powerful history of 19th century frontier life; Bottle and Glass is a stunning ...

Helen Humphreys - award-winning novelist and poet laureate of Kingston, Ontario, author of Afterimage, Coventry, and The Reinvention of Love

Alone: A Winter In The Woods - Sidnell Reid recreates, with meticulous detail and authenticity, the atmosphere and the daunting challenge that existed for the first pioneers, struggling to carve out a life in the remote, vibrant and spectacular Canadian outback that existed back in 1797. This delightfully descriptive ...

Reading about John Turner, the young hero of Alone, is the perfect antidote to Holden Caulfield, the cynical protagonist of Catcher in the Rye. In this engaging novel, set in 19th century Ontario, a thirteen-year old goes through the rites of passage, guarding the homestead. Alone in the bush, ...

Erika Rummel author of three novels including Head Games, prize winning novellas and many academic titles. Erika Rummel

Way’s book of poetry seems aptly titled redirection, shifting as it does from spirited memories to poignant odes. His use of language – playful and exquisite in equal measure – is redolent with allusion and references to popular culture. Evocative content plays opposite syntactical panache, and asks readers to ...

In this engaging third period work, poet and career editor Susan Ioannou relentlessly questions the adequacy of words to capture the gleanings of her keen-eyed, open-eared travels through space and time—even words that hang themselves upon the catch-nail of love.

If, like me, you read historical fiction because we lack time-travel machines, you will devour Morgan Wade’s Bottle and Glass. Here’s a round-trip ticket to the War of 1812 as Canadians, kidnapped—a.k.a. “impressed”—recruits, and their wives and mothers experienced it. You’ll despair with the hero as the Crown’s officers ...